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California-based Pacific Legal Foundation has joined more than 90 companies and trade groups in taking legal action to stop the Environmental Protection Agency from implementing its proposed regulations to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. The coalition accused the EPA of violating its statutory duty by skipping an independent review to arrive at an endangerment finding on greenhouse-gas emissions, but the agency countered by saying its decision has a scientific basis.

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California-based Pacific Legal Foundation has joined more than 90 companies and trade groups in taking legal action to stop the Environmental Protection Agency from implementing its proposed regulations to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. The coalition accused the EPA of violating its statutory duty by skipping an independent review to arrive at an endangerment finding on greenhouse gas emissions, but the agency countered by saying its decision has a scientific basis.

California-based Pacific Legal Foundation has joined more than 90 companies and trade groups in taking legal action to stop the Environmental Protection Agency from implementing its proposed regulations to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. The coalition accused the EPA of violating its statutory duty by skipping an independent review to arrive at an endangerment finding on greenhouse gas emissions, but the agency countered by saying its decision has a scientific basis.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce filed in a federal appeals court a challenge to the Environmental Protection Agency's greenhouse-gas endangerment finding, which is a prerequisite to issuing emissions-curbing regulations. The Chamber's petition will not test the scientific validity of the ruling but will focus "on the inadequacies of the process that EPA followed in triggering Clean Air Act regulation," said Steven Law, chief legal officer at the Chamber.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce filed in a federal appeals court a challenge to the Environmental Protection Agency's greenhouse-gas endangerment finding, which is a prerequisite to issuing emissions-curbing regulations. The Chamber's petition will not test the scientific validity of the ruling but will focus "on the inadequacies of the process that EPA followed in triggering Clean Air Act regulation," said Steven Law, chief legal officer at the Chamber.

Six Republican lawmakers from Georgia joined the Southeastern Legal Foundation in challenging the Environmental Protection Agency's greenhouse-gas endangerment finding, which paves the way for federal regulations of GHG emissions. "The scientific basis for the EPA endangerment finding is flawed, based on questionable and potentially fraudulent data," said Shannon Goessling, SLF executive director. The foundation also said the endangerment finding is an attempt to impose costly regulations without legislative approval.